Jenny McCarthy Wears a Bathrobe and Slippers for School Drop-off

When you’re already not a morning person, the chaos of getting a kid ready for school is a monumental task. Something’s gotta give if you want to get out of the house on time — the perfect balanced breakfast you’d planned to eat, your skin care routine, double-checking homework, posting to social media. Jenny McCarthy chooses to skip getting dressed when she has to take son Evan to school, as she shared this morning on Facebook.

“How I roll into school drop off in the mornings. #robeandslippers,” she wrote. Within an hour, she had more than 300 comments on the post, mostly from other mothers chiming in to say that’s how they do drop off too.

“Dude, I’m the only mom at my kids school who does this!” wrote Elena Denise. “When I roll up to their school all the Stepford moms look at me like REALLY? But guess what? IDGAF about their judgments! I think about that movie Bad Moms every time I go to their school and I can’t help but laugh!”

“Got bleach on my sweatpants , rocking a man hoodie & hair in a side pony. No shame in my game for school attire drop off,” said Tara Bliss.

“You mean there are people who actually get for real dressed for this?” Alyssa Aj Blaylock asked.

Of course, parents who have to go from school straight to a workplace can only look on in envy at this dress code — unless they can manage to work the pajamas-as-high-fashion look, like Selena Gomez.

But some parents and teachers think that dressing appropriately is the responsible way to set a good example for children. In 2011, a group of schools in England wrote parents, requesting that they wear proper clothes on school grounds. “We all have the opinion that appearing at school dressed in [pajamas] isn’t the right way to go about things,” Chris Kemp-Hall, one of the teachers behind the letter, told the Telegraph.

Last year, when a primary school head teacher in Darlington, U.K., asked parents to “wash and get dressed,” in line with their goal to “raise standards,” her letter went viral. While many supported her request, others began to show up in their PJs more often, just to make a point.

When Hilary Duff shared an #OOTD on Instagram last April that she called an upgrade from her typical school drop-off outfit of Lululemon sweats, she got as much backlash as she did support. “You call this cute?!? A lady of class and substance wouldn’t be caught wearing this,” wrote one commenter.

As usual, public attitudes about women’s attire is a moving target. Is it OK to wear bathrobes and slippers, but cutoffs and a trench coat are inappropriate? Can you wear one thing if you’re staying in the car, but not if you’re walking the kids to school? The one constant here: Everyone has an opinion.

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